Sentence examples for lavish field from inspiring English sources

With the connivance of the International Olympic Committee, they turned what used to be an amateur sport into the equivalent of a national defence force, hurling money and status at their athletes while the IOC turned the Games into a lavish field of the cloth of gold – at some poor taxpayer's expense.

In 2009, cricket, the sport with deep upper-class traditions which gave us separate changing rooms for amateur "gentlemen" and professional "players", still illustrates Britain's monumental class divide, between the lavish fields owned by public schools and the comparatively threadbare landscape at the state schools in which 93% of people are educated.

The divide between state schools' mostly cramped sporting provision and the lavish playing fields of Britain's public schools – attended by most of Crouch's government colleagues – has only become more pronounced.

During Micaela Carolan & Victoria Campbell of PRO SHOP's video for Fetty Wap's Trap Queen, artists James Sprang and Kenya Johnson rapped and twerked in front of vintage footage of beautiful, ethereal women frolicking in daisy fields and lavish bedrooms, a juxtaposition that highlighted both the lyrics and the images in a context outside the rap video paradigm.

We can easily envision Fred Wilpon in the lavish confines of his Citi Field box, munching on his Shake Shack burger and complaining to Jeffrey Toobin of The New Yorker about the performance of his marquee players in relation to their reputations and remuneration.

The period was one of lavish private expenditure in other fields as well.

The five-story town house had been completely gutted and rebuilt in a lavish renovation, according to Nikki E. Field, a senior vice president with Sotheby's Realty International, who represented the seller.

Taking shelter in a cave, he reminisces about his boyhood in what was then a lavish landscape; young Alexander darts through fields of poppies and sunflowers, their fierce primary colors slashing the screen as Solntseva's camera rushes alongside him.

Box office earnings are steadily decreasing and even the Met's attempts to lure audiences with lavish visual extravaganzas like the reported $169,000 poppy field used in their 2014 production of Prince Igor, have been in vain.

Some city wards were literally filled with open public playing fields or the backyards of lavish mansions for playing horse polo and cuju football.

His tournament next month, once a crown jewel of the PGA Tour's schedule, falls at the same time as a European Tour event in Abu Dhabi, which offers lavish appearance fees to attract a world-class field.